ALAN BOND’S RISE AND FALL
HOUSE OF BOND: NINE’S EPIC DRAMA MINI-SERIES
Ben Mingay (Packed to the Rafters) stars as Alan Bond – a man with an insatiable appetite for the excesses of life – in House of Bond, the mini-series now in production for the Nine Network.
House of Bond tells the outrageous tale of Australia’s most controversial tycoon, whose excesses ran to women, fame, money, crime and everything in between. The mini-series co-stars Rachael Taylor (Jessica Jones) as Diana Bliss, Adrienne Pickering (Rake) as Eileen Bond and Sam Neill (House of Hancock) as Roland “Tiny” Rowland.
House of Bond is the rags-to-riches tale that will expose Alan “Bondy” Bond’s incredible rise and spectacular fall in the 1970s and 80s as the cheeky, knockabout “Ten Pound Pom” who fought his way from the back alleys of Fremantle to become the richest man in Australia and one of our greatest sporting heroes for winning the America’s Cup. Was Bond a hero? A villain? Or a little bit of both?
The series will also star Gyton Grantley, Samantha Jade, Anne Looby, John Howard, Johnny Ruffo, Roy Billing, Paul Gleeson and Jack Campbell.
House of Bond is being produced by Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, with executive producers Andy Ryan, Jo Rooney and Michael Cordell; producer Paul Bennett (House of Hancock, The Great Mint Swindle); writer Sarah Smith (Winter, Rescue Special Ops, Dripping in Chocolate); and the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW.
HOUSE OF BOND: NOW IN PRODUCTION FOR THE NINE NETWORK
Interesting to see two former X Factor contestants and actors (Samantha Jade and Johnny Ruffo) participating in the series, Ruffo’s first role since announcing he is leaving Home and Away. IIRC Seven showed the 1983 America’s Cup exclusively, is it willing to lend the footage?
House of Bond tells the outrageous rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of controversial business tycoon Alan Bond (Ben Mingay) and how he fought his way from the back alleys of Fremantle to become the richest man in Australia and one of our greatest sporting heroes.
The mini-series co-stars Rachael Taylor (Red Dog) as Diana Bliss, Adrienne Pickering (Rake) as Eileen Bond and Sam Neill (House of Hancock) as Roland “Tiny” Rowland, with Samantha Jade, Gyton Grantley, Marcus Graham, Anne Looby, Johnny Ruffo, Roy Billing, Paul Gleeson and Jack Campbell.
House of Bond is produced by CJZ for the Nine, directed by Mark Joffe and written by Sarah Smith, with the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW.
The miniseries will debut on Nine next month. Alan Bond’s former wife Eileen has slammed it as “appalling” and a fabricated version of her 37-year marriage, and is threatening legal action according to News Corp.
Alan Bond. Hero? Villain? Or a little bit of both?
Ben Mingay (as Alan Bond), Rachael Taylor (as Diana Bliss), Adrienne Pickering (as Eileen Bond) and Sam Neill (as Roland “Tiny” Rowland) star in Nine’s epic new mini-series HOUSE OF BOND, which goes to air over two big nights – Monday, April 24, and Tuesday, April 25 – at 9.00pm after The Voice on Channel Nine.
HOUSE OF BOND tells the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of controversial business tycoon Alan Bond – a man with an insatiable appetite for the excesses of life: women, fame, money, crime and everything in between.
It’s the outrageous story of how a cheeky, knockabout Ten Pound-Pom rises from the back alleys of Fremantle to become the richest man in Australia and one of our greatest sporting heroes. But a man whose ego, greed and ambition sees him overreach beyond all measure – his empire spectacularly crumbling like a house of cards as overnight he becomes the country’s greatest villain, with the biggest bankruptcy Australia has ever seen.
HOUSE OF BOND is the extraordinary story of how Alan Bond defined the 1980s in Australia by dreaming big and rewriting the rulebook. A man who inspired a nation to believe in itself and made its people feel that anything, no matter how impossible, could be achieved. But he was a man whose dreams were built with other people’s money.
The mini-series also features Gyton Grantley, Samantha Jade, Marcus Graham, Anne Looby, Johnny Ruffo, Roy Billing, Paul Gleeson and Jack Campbell.
They seem to get the retro fashions right for women in these biopics but they miss the mark with the business suits and ties for the mens. The cuts and lapels on suits looked really different in the 70s and 80s but everyone in this mini series is wearing trendy suits from today.
Crashed in the ratings. Probably not such a great idea to start a movie length episode after 9pm and on the night before a public holiday.
This did a lot worse than Hoges too. Maybe they have saturated the market with these and viewers are sick of them now. Maybe time to give these a rest. Too late. Olivia Newton-John and Warnie already in production. Oops.
